(October 17, 2016 at 1:24 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(October 16, 2016 at 5:16 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: I don't know what the answer is, but we are going to have to have some sort of major shift in the way we think about jobs and unemployment in this country.
Making higher education more affordable for more people would be a great start.
Agreed. STEM focus in high school, affordable college, all great things that will help tremendously.
I still think there are going to be too many people and not enough jobs. Self driving cars will mean fleets of truck drivers out of business. Machines will make manufacturing a thing that requires a tiny, specialized crew. The service industry will be replaced by touchpads. Waiters replaced by an iPad at your table. Nearly every industry, top to bottom, is requiring less people. Even the military will experience less and less need for literal manpower. (Enter Trump: "Our military is gutted!")
When I say we are going to require a shift in how we think about the workforce, I mean that we are going to have to come to terms with the fact that there will not be enough jobs to go around. We are going to have to come up with a way to have a, say, 25% unemployment rate and still have people survive.
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